Re: the police was dispatched to ... the wrong house

["Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46c64bd6$0$23592$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:_vbxi.68589$SV4.17495@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>> For a small central station, having 4 lines in 2
>> hunting groups for just ~1,000 accounts is no
>> big deal.  In our case, almost all of our clients
>> were local so we didn't use 800 numbers.
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> Right thats the cheap approach you keep hapring about, 4 receivers and 4
> lines for 1,000 accounts
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>> Monitronics claims to have nearly 500,000
>> monitored accounts.
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> No well over 600,000
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>>  If they follow minima, they
>> have over 700 receiver phone numbers (lines).
>> If they did daily test or O/C on all accounts
>> they would need at least doubly that.  They
>> would also need twice as many resceivers, line
>> cards, etc.  Monitronics would need larger
>> facilities with more backup power to accomodate
>> the additional hardware
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> That would only be the case if we went by your limited experience with
> central station receivers, I don't know what you used but my guess might be
> SurGard MLR-2's which is a good basic 2-line receiver but still old
> technology.

Nope.  As usual, you're wrong.  Do a little Googling on this newsgroup and you'll learn.

>> We know that in order to do it right you would
>> need to invest in lots more hardware, not to
>> mention trebling your telco line charges and
>> quadruping (at least) your 800 number costs.
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> Exactly